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A Man With A Hose

Elizabethan Commentary. By Hilaire Belloc. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) MR. BELLOC is a teasing, captious, incorrigible historian. I use the word historian deliberately, having at 'first......

Genuine Pre-war Stock

Death and the Dancing Footman. By Ngaio Marsh. (Crime Club 8s. 6d.) THE authors of the first five of these stories deserve every com- mendation for sticking to their business......

"germany's Protectorate "

Germany's First European Protectorate. By Eugene V. FAO. (Hale. us. 6c1.) ExcErr for the rather too frequent citations of Tacitus, and i harking-back to Julius Caesar as a guide......